10/18/2025
✨Hey Galaxy, it's Anna 👋✨
I know it's late, but I wanted to put something down that allowed me (and all of you!) to remember this day.
Three years ago this time, I had very blonde bangs, and was painting absolutely everything in sight and installing a lot of light fixtures, in a mad rush two week prep to open this yoga studio.
The experience of starting a business, especially one that is so much an expression of one's heart like this one is... It's kind of like having a child.
This last weekend, as I hung out with 20 of my closest college friends, I talked about how having my kids changed me, immediately, into a person who lives and loves for others. Changed me in ways that I could never have done without their being brought into the world.
And having this studio changed me in a similar, lighting bolt kind of way. I learned to be confident and trust my gut. I learned to lean into the uniqueness of my creative vision. I learned about boundaries. I learned not to be sensitive, but to remain open. I learned about the graceful ex*****on of plan B. I learned about how your "customers" will become your community.
I won't lie, there were moments in the last few years that were ROUGH. Cry in your car rough. Cry in your car and then wipe the tears off your face bc you have to show up to hold space for others rough. There were many times when I thought, "Just get to the end of the three years, and you can be done."
But guess what? Three years has come around. And I don't want to be done, because we're building something really special here.
I received my lease extension today. Tbh, I would still like to have a yoga studio in an old church space, but I haven't found that yet, and I love this sweet little studio, and its perfect location and my very reasonable landlords.
Long story longer: we're gonna stick around. The lease extension is five years. I'd like to be very old and still doing yoga in this space, if that sounds good to you. I actually can't think of anything that sounds more dreamy than that.
I hope you'll stick around, too, and bring a friend or two along. Thank you for making this vision a reality. I love you all.
Om Tat Sat.
